So let’s bring in our roundtable: George Will, the Huffington Post‘s Arianna Huffington, former George W. Bush strategist Matthew Dowd, and historian and Newsweek columnist Niall Ferguson, author of the new book Civilization: The West and the Rest.

Three conservatives and the left-liberal Huffington.

But if anything, ABC‘s panel was teetering leftward. On NBC‘s Meet the Press:

Finally, our roundtablewill discuss ifthe state of the Republican race in flux now that the front-runner is engulfed in controversy. Republican strategist Alex Castellanos, Wall Street Journal editorial board member Kim Strassel, author of the new book Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero and host of MSNBC‘s Hardball Chris Matthews, and Politico senior political writer Maggie Haberman give their views.

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Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t Chris Matthews explain that Obama’s problem (in relation to JFK) was that he hasn’t saved anybody’s lives (ala PT 109) to where these friends would then be willing to ‘kill his enemies for him’? There’s a couple questions about this. I suppose the first one is: who did Kennedy’s PT 109 buddies kill for him? I know Matthews is trying to sell books, but that seems to be a strange, gangster qualification for office. While typing this, Matthew just announced that Conrad Murray was convicted for ‘administering an aesthetic’ to Michael Jackson. So this means I need to turn off everything and get back to my “Smile” box set.